Search results

Maybe I'm overlooking something, but couldn't you record the guitar first and then go back and record the vocals?

In regard to performance volume; I take a db meter to most gigs. Our lead singer has the typical lead singer "turn-my-mic-up" disease, so I have to keep measure on our level to keep him in check. If we start to push past 105db (C) then I start bringing the master down.

M-Powered.

Sony 7506. Not that mixing in headphones is a good idea but these are by far the best headphones I've ever used.

If I need to reduce breath noise, I don't usually cut it all the way out. I'll just significantly reduce the amplitude of the offending breath(s). If you totally silence a breath, it sometimes doesn't sound natural, unless that's the sound I'm looking for.

Have you tried a different power outlet? Sounds like an AC problem.

I see what you're saying. However, the incident that prompted this conversation was that I have used a gazillion Mackie mixer for both live and recording in the past. They were ROCK solid night after night, session after session. I just purchase a new Mackie for live use and I have had nothing...

Didn't Mackie get sold recently? One of our local retailers said that all of their products are now being made overseas and so our local dudes will no longer carry them because of questionable quality control. True?

Incidentally, my live room gets a full 10 degrees warmer than my control room. Sometimes on cold winter days, I'll have the thermostat set so that it's not artic cold in the control, all the while, the talent is sweating profusely in the live room. I should look into this...... Sorry for the...

My policy is, you can bring you own engineer but I'm not cutting you a discount and I will still be in the control room. I can see why you would want to do this, based on the specificity of your recording, but most people that bring their own engineer just end up racking up more hours on the...

Hehe. My mixes must be REALLY good......

Sorry, thread double posted. MODS - Please delete.

So the other CD Duplication thread got me thinking. How do you guys feel about replicated CDs versus duplicated CDs? I usually tell my clients and artists that I think replicated CDs look more professional. There's something about the green side of a duplicated disk that just screams "DEMO" to...

So the other CD Duplication thread got me thinking. How do you guys feel about replicated CDs versus duplicated CDs? I usually tell my clients and artists that I think replicated CDs look more professional. There's something about the green side of a duplicated disk that just screams "DEMO" to...

So you're thinkin' that hip-hop is only real in it's truest, most unaltered sense, like it was back in the day? I see where you're comin' from. I can feel that.

Wavelab is cool. It's not the end-all-be-all mastering tool but it is geared for 2-track processing and editing. I send most of my stuff to a mastering engineer (who uses mainly Sound Forge, strangely enough) but I have played around with mastering in Wavelab. I would say it's probably the best...

Just out of curiousity, why not MIDI?

I hear what you're saying but then how do you define the culture that surrounds rap and other urban music? I think Hip Hop, as a culture, started with breakin' and grafetti, and B-boys and such. It's grown into much more than that; including rap music, DJs, fashion, style, language, attitude...

Rap is a style of music within the hip-hop culture. Not the other way around. The drug game added another element to rap music but it wasn't the end of the hip-hop culture. Yes, the government is out to get you........

The effect can be created with auto-toooon but he's talking about a vocoder. Roger Troutman was the king of the vocoder. There are several keyboards and hardware boxes that will give you this effect (check ebay) or there are several plugs that will do this too. I think the one that Glen...